So you are talking about JHS and there is a menu. I'm not sure there is a solution better than having help as the last item on the last menu. Perhaps a help noun that would also do for jconsole would satisfy.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > Because you don't see "Help" on the menu until you click the "link" > link. You get a command line waiting for some input. In many systems, > the obvious thing to do at that point is to type some form of "help" on > that command line to see what happens. > > Eric Iverson wrote: > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:28:37 -0400 > > From: Eric Iverson<[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Jbeta] suggestion: help > > To: Beta forum<[email protected]> > > > > Why is a help verb more helpful than the menu item? > > > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Murray Eisenberg<[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> I suggest there be a noun 'help' that, when typed at the J prompt, takes > >> you to the jhelp page. > >> > >> My initial thought was to have a verb to be used in the form > >> > >> help '' > >> > >> but then that would presume the user already knew about J syntax. > > > -- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
